by TCurtin
Having recently moved to northern Westchester near the Hudson Div., we have gone into NY City often and for various reasons ---- easy to do, given Metro North's great schedules on this line. Anyway, I got to wondering what NYC's commute schedules were like here during NYC's last years in the 1960s. I suddenly remembered that I have a Hudson Div/New York Terminal Div. employee timetable from April 1967, so I went through my collection and dug it out and studied it.
I was rather shocked to find that (Unless I missed something) the weekday schedule had exactly one through round trip from Poughkeepsie to GCT (#836 inbound in the AM peak, #841 outbound in the PM peak). Aside from a once a week Sunday evening inbound, EVERYTHING ELSE operating past Croton-Harmon was by Budd RDC connection. Did I miss something, or had the convenience of the service really deteriorated that much by 1967?
(Note, I am not counting the service to Albany, Buffalo, and beyond)
I was rather shocked to find that (Unless I missed something) the weekday schedule had exactly one through round trip from Poughkeepsie to GCT (#836 inbound in the AM peak, #841 outbound in the PM peak). Aside from a once a week Sunday evening inbound, EVERYTHING ELSE operating past Croton-Harmon was by Budd RDC connection. Did I miss something, or had the convenience of the service really deteriorated that much by 1967?
(Note, I am not counting the service to Albany, Buffalo, and beyond)